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What's New in Oxygen XML Developer 26.1

March 25, 2024

Related version: 26.0    

Oxygen XML Developer version 26.1 is an incremental release of the industry-leading bundle of tools for content authors, developers, collaborators, and publishers.

JSON users now have the power to transform JSON documents using XSLT transformation scenarios, unlocking a myriad of new possibilities. The content completion for JSON offers proposals even when no schema is associated and the JSON Outline view can help increase productivity as it now displays the number of child elements in each array's label and also supports drag and drop. Furthermore, basic text editing support was added for JSON5 documents, and a new JSON Schema Validator add-on is available to provide support for validating JSON documents against JSON schema version 2020-12.

You also now have the ability to execute Quick fix proposals in bulk, the latest engines are available for the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer add-on, XProc 3.0 schemas were added to offer support for content completion and validation for XProc 3.0 files, unique values are now automatically generated for ID-type attributes that are inserted using the Content Completion Assistant, and schema files and new file templates were added to support editing DocBook 5.2 documents and SVG 1.2 Tiny documents.

The AI Positron Assistant now has a separate Enterprise version available for users who want to connect to OpenAI accounts or Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. New document templates are also available to help you easily create AI Positron custom actions, a new AI action is also available to translate content into any desired language, and the AI Positron Refactoring action now even works when applied on remote resources.

Starting with this release, the Enterprise edition of Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer becomes AI-ready, offering access without the need for an additional subscription to the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise add-on which allows direct connection to OpenAI accounts or to the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.

Additionally, version 26.1 implements a variety of performance improvements, security enhancements, API and component updates, and various bug fixes.

There are changes in:

Text Mode
JSON
XSLT / XQuery / XPath / XProc
File Comparison
Markdown
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant
Add-ons
Scripting
Miscellaneous
Component Updates
Deprecated/Removed Components
API

Text Mode

Batch Execute Quick Fix Proposals

A new Apply all default quick fix proposals action was added in the Text editing mode's contextual menu that can be used to batch execute all detected default quick fix proposals for all reported validation errors.
Batch Execute Quick Fix Proposals

Toggle Comments Action Supports Multiple Languages

The Toggle Comments action that is used to enclose the currently selected fragment in a comment is now context dependent, making it possible to comment multiple types of languages within a document. For example, you can comment XML, CSS, JavaScript, or XPath fragments inside an XSLT document.

Automatically Generate Unique Values for ID-Type Attributes

When an ID-type attribute is inserted using the Content Completion Assistant, a unique value is now automatically generated for it, eliminating the need for an extra step of adding an unique value for the attribute.

JSON

Transform JSON Documents with XSLT

An enhanced feature was added that enables you to transform JSON documents using XSLT processing. This involves the implementation of transformation scenarios, which can be created and linked to JSON documents. This facilitates the smooth processing of JSON documents, streamlining the overall workflow. See Transforming JSON Documents with XSLT for more details.
Transform JSON Documents with XSLT

Transform Multiple JSON Documents at Once

It is now possible to transform multiple JSON documents at once with XSLT processing. To achieve this, select multiple JSON documents in the Project view, and from the contextual menu, you can choose to apply or configure an XSLT transformation scenario.

Edit JSON5 Documents

Text editing support was added for JSON5 documents (a superset of JSON that aims to alleviate some of the limitations of JSON by expanding its syntax to include some productions from ECMAScript 5.1). The Outline view also includes syntax highlights for JSON5 documents. Validation support is also available. See Editing JSON5 Documents for more details.
Edit JSON5 Documents

Content Completion Offers Proposals Even When no Schema is Associated

When editing a JSON document that does not have an associated schema, Oxygen automatically learns the document structure as you edit and the content completion assistant will propose inferred JSON structures accordingly.

Better Array Rendering in JSON Outline View

The JSON Outline view now displays the number of child elements in each array's label and each child is prefixed with the index in the array. This makes it easier to identify and work with the arrays using the Outline view.

Enhanced Drag and Drop Functionality in JSON Outline View

Significant improvements were made to the drag and drop support in the JSON Outline view. Now, you can easily drop a property within an object or array as a sibling or a child. This feature ensures a more seamless and efficient editing experience.

XSLT / XQuery / XPath / XProc

Updated Engines Available for the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer Add-on

New versions for the Saxon XSLT and XQuery transformer add-on are now available to install. They integrate the latest available engine versions for Saxon 10 (10.9), 11 (11.6), and 12 (12.4).
Latest Engines Available for the Saxon XSLT and XQuery Transformer Add-on

Default XSLT Stylesheet version set to 3.0

XSLT 3.0 is now used as the default version for the various components within the application. New document templates, sample files, and various options within preferences pages now have XSLT 3.0 set as the default rather than 2.0.

XProc Version 3.0 Schemas

XProc 3.0 schemas were added to offer support for content completion and validation for XProc 3.0 files. The validation support for version 3.0 is only available using the default validation engine (if a custom engine is used, version 3.0 support depends on whether it is available for that particular custom engine).

File Comparison

Merge Documents with Change Tracking Highlights Tool Improved

Improvements were made to the Merge Documents with Change Tracking Highlights tool to provide better handling of particular cases where documents with extensive structural changes are compared (one such example would be the case in which elements are renamed to ensure that the new structure is generated correctly and all the attributes are copied). This should help eliminate false validation errors when comparing pairs with lots of structural changes.

API for Merge Documents or Directories with Change Tracking Highlights

The newly added AuthorDiffChangeTrackingMergerFactory.AuthorDiffChangeTrackingMergerFactory() API can be used for merging a pair of compared XML documents or directories and the resulting merged document will contain highlighted tracked changes. The class provides 2 methods: createChangeTrackingMergePerformer() for merging documents, and createDirectoryChangeTrackingMergePerformer() for merging directories.

Markdown

Syntax Highlights for Languages Embedded in Markdown

For Markdown documents that contain code from various languages, those blocks are now rendered with proper syntax highlights to make it easier to distinguish the non-Markdown syntax. The languages that are rendered with syntax highlights in Markdown documents include JavaScript, JSON, YAML, XML, Java, Python, and CSS.

DITA Preview Presents Colors and Filters for Profiling Attributes

For Markdown documents that contain profiling attributes within curly braces (e.g. ## Header 2 {audience=expert}), the DITA preview pane now presents the profiling attributes, colors, and filtered elements similar to how they are presented in Author mode, provided that the profiling is set to be shown in the Profiling/Conditional Text drop-down menu in the DITA Maps Manager.
DITA Preview Presents Colors and Filters for Profiling Attributes

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise

A separate Enterprise version of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on is now available allowing users to directly connect to their AI models, either by using their OpenAI accounts or on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This enables them to have full control over the AI service that is used by the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant and to leverage personalized or company-specific AI models. Users can configure their company-specific AI service details in the new AI Service Configuration preferences page (Options->Preferences->Oxygen AI Positron Assistant->AI Service Configuration).

Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise operates with a subscription license. Additionally, it can now be used without a separate subscription on the newly introduced Enterprise (AI-ready) edition for Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer.


Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise

Easily Create Custom AI Actions

New document templates are available to help you easily create AI Positron custom actions. The AI Positron Custom Action file template contains a single custom action definition in JSON format and can be used to configure a single action, while the AI Positron Custom Actions List file template provides a convenient way of defining multiple actions inside the same file. While working on such an action, you will also benefit from the help given by the content completion assistant.

Translate Content to Any Language

A new action (named "Other") was added inside the Translation section and can be used to translate content into any desired language. You are able to choose from a predefined set of languages or type your own target language.
Oxygen AI Positron Assistant Enterprise

AI Refactoring Available for Remote Resources

The AI Positron Assistant add-on contributes an AI Positron Refactoring action in the contextual menu (Refactoring->AI Positron Refactoring) of both the Project and DITA Maps Manager views that can be used to refactor multiple files at once. Now, this feature also works when applied on remote resources (for example, resources placed on WebDav servers or Content Management Systems).

Easier Access to Actions

The available AI actions are now displayed as buttons in the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant view when the chat is empty (in addition to being displayed in the Actions drop-down menu), thus providing easier access to start a new AI action.
Easier Access to Actions

XML Syntax Coloring In Chat Response Area

The chat pane now uses XML syntax highlighting for XML code to make it easier to see and understand the XML structure.
XML Syntax Highlights

Add-ons

Oxygen offers a range of add-ons that can be utilized to expand its functionality. Version 26.1 introduces the JSON Schema Validator add-on and brings new improvements for the Batch Documents Converter add-on.

JSON Schema Validator

A new JSON Schema Validator add-on is available to provide support for validating JSON documents against JSON schema version 2020-12. The validation engine is based on the json-sKema library. Once the add-on is installed, you can choose the JSON Schema Validator (json-sKema) engine when creating a validation scenario. For more details, see JSON Schema Validator add-on.
Easier Access to Actions

Batch Documents Converter Improvements

Several enhancements were made to the Batch Documents Converter add-on, including the addition of an XSD to JSON Schema conversion that results in a version 2020-12 JSON Schema.

Scripting

The All Platforms distribution of Oxygen is bundled with a scripts sub-folder that contains scripts for automating and running various utilities from a command line interface. To run any of these scripts, you need to purchase a scripting license.

Performance Improved for Validation and Check for Completeness Script

The DITA Validate and Check for Completeness script received important performance enhancements. By eliminating a lot of duplication within the processing, the time it takes for the script to finish when using DITAVAL filters has been reduced significantly.

Miscellaneous

Experimental Dark Color Theme in Eclipse

A new experimental system property (-Dcom.oxygenxml.eclipse.dark.color.theme=true) can be set in the eclipse.ini configuration file to enforce a dark color theme when opening XML documents in Oxygen's Eclipse plugin. The regular color theme in Eclipse must also be set to Dark (in the Preferences->General->Appearance page) to consistently apply the Dark theme in the entire workbench.

Create and Validate SVG 1.2 Tiny Documents

SVG 1.2 Tiny schema grammar files were added and a new file template to create new SVG 1.2 Tiny documents is available in the new file wizard. These updates make it possible to easily create, edit, and validate SVG Tiny 1.2 documents.

DocBook 5.2

Schemas and new file templates were added to support creating, validating, and editing DocBook 5.2 documents.

Component Updates

Eclipse 4.31

Updated the Eclipse plugin to support version 2024-03 (4.31).

XSpec Helper View Add-on Now Bundles XSpec 2.3.2

The XSpec Helper View add-on was updated to include XSpec version 2.3.2.

TEI XML Schemas 4.7.0 and XSLT 7.56.0

The TEI XML vocabulary schemas were updated to version 4.7.0 and the XSLT stylesheets were updated to version 7.56.0.

OpenJDK 17.0.10

The version of OpenJDK that is bundled with the installation kits for providing the Java Runtime Environment was updated to version 17.0.10 from Eclipse Adoptium.

JSON-Java Package 20240205

Updated the JSON-Java (org.json) package to version 20240205.

Apache Lucene 9.7.0

Updated the Apache Lucene libraries used for indexing content for the Open/Find Resource functionality to version 9.7.0.

Apache POI 5.2.5

Updated the Apache POI libraries used for various conversions from MS Excel to version 5.2.5.

Apache Commons IO 2.15.0

Updated the Apache Commons IO utilities library to version 2.15.0.

Logback Classic 1.4.14

Updated the logback-classic library to version 1.4.14.

Logback Core 1.4.14

Updated the logback-core library to version 1.4.14.

Deprecated/Removed Components

EAD, KML, StratML Frameworks Moved to Oxygen XML GitHub Organization

The frameworks for editing EAD, KML, and StratML documents are now available as separate projects in the Oxygen XML GitHub organization.

Deprecated Support for Tree Editor

The support for the Tree Editor (Tools->Tree Editor) has been officially deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Deprecated Support for WSDL

The support for editing WSDL files and for the WSDL SOAP Analyser has been officially deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Deprecated Support for FTP/SFTP

The support for using FTP and SFTP connections has been officially deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Deprecated Support for Databases

The support for connecting to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, IBM DB2, and Marklogic databases has been officially deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Deprecated Support for Xalan and XSLTProc

The support for using the Xalan and XSLTProc XSLT processors has been officially deprecated and will be removed in a future major release.

Support Removed for XSV and SQC Custom Validation Engines

The support for using the XSV (XML Schema Validator) and SQC (Schema Quality Checker from IBM) custom validation engines has been removed.

API

Create an Editor Component for a Certain Content Type

The StandalonePluginWorkspace.createEditorComponentProvider API now allows you to create an editing component that can be used in custom side views by passing an extra content type parameter. This means you can create editing components to edit HTML5 or JSON content.

Create a Text Area with Syntax Highlights

The new OxygenUIComponentsFactory.createTextArea(String contentType, boolean highlightCurrentLine) API method allows you to create a text area with syntax highlights for a certain content type and it also controls whether or not the current line should be highlighted. One example of a use case is that it enabled undo/redo events to be selected when editing a chat message in the AI Positron Assistant.

Access Batch Operations Listener for 3rd-Party Plugins

The newly added PluginWorkspace.getBatchOperationsListenersAccess() API method can be used by third-party plugins to notify other plugins when a batch operation that modifies multiple resources is in progress.

Reload Content of a Document

The WSEditor.reload() API method now allows for the content of an opened document to be reloaded from the original URL location (whether it is a local or remote location).

Reload Content of a Document if Change is Detected on Local Disk

The new WSEditor.reloadIfChangeOnDiskDetected() API method can be used to reload the content of an opened document from the local disk if the content on disk has changed in the meantime.

Merge Documents or Directories with Change Tracking Highlights

The newly added AuthorDiffChangeTrackingMergerFactory.AuthorDiffChangeTrackingMergerFactory() API can be used for merging a pair of compared XML documents or directories and the resulting merged document will contain highlighted tracked changes. The class provides 2 methods: createChangeTrackingMergePerformer() for merging documents, and createDirectoryChangeTrackingMergePerformer() for merging directories.

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